Marshall Hall
Marshall Hall (1790-1857) was an English physician, physiologist and humanitarian
Month January 2019
Oxygen saturation targets in critical care
Oxygen saturation targets in critical illness. Both the extremes of hypoxaemia and hyperoxia have the potential to harm critically ill patients and worsen their outcomes
Burns, Oxygenation and Ventilation
Burns can affect 4 anatomic areas of the respiratory tract:: Supraglottal; tracheobronchial;
pulmonary parenchymal; and chest/abdominal wall
Stress Induced Hyperglycaemia
Stress Induced Hyperglycaemia (SIH) is transient hyperglycaemia associated with acute illness
resolves with resolution of the underlying critical illness
Ultrasound Case 076
A 53 year old woman presents with abdominal pain. She has had recurrent bowel obstructions and left this 24 hours before presenting hoping it would settle. You scan her abdomen.
Adenosine
Adenosine: short acting anti-arrhythmic; naturally occurring purine nucleoside. Epression of SA & AV nodal activity; antagonises cAMP-mediated catecholamine stimulation of ventricular muscle
CICM SAQ 2010.1 Q19
Questions 19.1. To evaluate a new biomarker as an early index of infected pancreatic necrosis, you perform the measurement in a consecutive series of 200 critically ill patients with pancreatitis. You find that 100 of these patients had subsequently proven…
CICM SAQ 2015.1 Q5
You are supervising a registrar who suffers a needle stick injury during the insertion of a central line in a patient with a history of intravenous drug use. Outline your approach to this problem.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 116
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 116 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Ultrasound Case 075
A patient in early pregnancy presents with pelvic pain and heavy vaginal bleeding. She has been bleeding heavily over the last hour. She tells you she had an ultrasound 2 weeks ago, at 5 weeks gestation which showed an intrauterine pregnancy, but was too early to detect cardiac activity.
History of Emergency Medicine
The history of emergency medicine in Australia and New Zealand has paralleled developments in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, although the models of emergency care exhibit some variation between systems, and between institutions within these systems
Surrogate outcomes
Surrogate outcomes are biomarkers intended to substitute for a clinical endpoint and expected to predict clinical benefit or harm based on epidemiologic, therapeutic, pathophysiologic, or other scientific evidence